Regionally Specific Distribution of Corticospinal Synapses because of Activity-Dependent Synapse Elimination in Vitro

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1377-1384

  Ohno, Takae ^a,b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a   Sakurai, Masaki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity dependence; Corticospinal tract; Development; NMDA receptor; Slice culture; Synapse elimination; Synapse formation

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BIOCYTIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTIVITY DEPENDENT SYNAPSE ELIMINATION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL DEATH; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1242291764     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3903-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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